Robotics & autonomy

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Robotics and autonomous systems obviously face specific challenges. Verhaert helps you build your robot, from preliminary feasibility research to engineering and production.

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Your robot needs to create a plan to complete its to-do list: go from a to b, pick up or drop off goodies.
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Being aware of your robot’s surroundings is a must: determine the optimal path, avoid obstacles and adjust the path when surroundings change.
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Translate the plan and awareness in instructions for the mechanical parts of your robot: drive, grasp, apply pressure, stack, inspect, dispense, etc.
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Propulsion systems and mechanical design to give your robot the ability to execute its tasks. Often added to the complexity: ruggedization and IP requirements.
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Your robot’s complexity goes beyond data and AI, it combines mechanics, electronics, sensors and system design. So look beyond the subsystems, your approach requires an integration of different expertises.

Mechatronics & kinematics

  • Custom robotics & mechanisms: stacking, gripping, inspection, dispensing …
  • Ruggedization: ingress protection, shock & vibration, harsh environments, ATEX
  • Propulsion systems
  • Drones, UUV / UAV, docking stations

Sensors & optics

  • One stop shop
  • Optics & sensor selection, development, calibration, certification
  • Sensor fusion
  • Vision systems, including machine learning
  • Smart sensors/AI processing/self-learning

Power & control electronics

  • Power management & power storage/batteries
  • Controller selection, development
  • Ruggedization of electronics
  • Control loop

System design

  • Market/user/product requirements management
  • Technical & economical feasibility
  • System & subsystem architecture
  • (Space) technology transfer
  • Verification & validation
  • Model based design, simulation, digital twins

AI & control algorithms

  • Perception: vision, lidar, radar …
  • Situational awareness
  • Planning & navigation
  • Efficient computing in the edge and cloud
  • Robot control & kinematics
  • Robotics development in simulation

IoT & communication

  • Connectivity (local/wide/low power)
  • Data safety
  • Server (local/central)
  • Data processing, data visualization, Artificial Intelligence (AI) based predictive maintenance
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  • Artificial Intelligence allows to increase the resolution of intraoperative CT images with preoperative MRI images, opening up new robotic surgical applications with breakthrough precision
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  • Situational awareness towards autonomous shipping. Integrated solution based on multiple cameras & Artificial Intelligence to detect & avoid hazards.
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  • Mock-up & user research for a fully automated system capable of performing safe & precise injections into the eye for the efficient treatment of several chronic ophthalmic diseases.
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